Title: Constraints on Symmetries from Holography

Abstract

In this Letter we show that a set of old conjectures about symmetries in quantum gravity hold within the anti–de Sitter/conformal field theory correspondence. These conjectures are that no global symmetries are possible, that internal gauge symmetries must come with dynamical objects that transform in all irreducible representations, and that internal gauge groups must be compact. These conjectures are not obviously true from a bulk perspective, they are nontrivial consequences of the nonperturbative consistency of the correspondence. More details of and background for these arguments are presented in an accompanying paper.

Authors:

Harlow, Daniel; Ooguri, Hirosi

Publication Date:

Fri May 17 00:00:00 EDT 2019

Research Org.:

California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:

USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); Simons Foundation

OSTI Identifier:

1513311

Alternate Identifier(s):

OSTI ID: 1597451

Grant/Contract Number:  

SC0011632; SC0019127; SC0018944

Resource Type:

Published Article

Journal Name:

Physical Review Letters

Additional Journal Information:

Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Volume: 122 Journal Issue: 19; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007

Publisher:

American Physical Society (APS)

Country of Publication:

United States

Language:

English

Subject:

79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS